Women Quotes About Strength & Life – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

Nancy Pelosi

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.

Jerry Costello

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

Hugh Shelton

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

Margaret Fuller

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

George Sand

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

Louise Slaughter

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

John Fowles

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

William Wycherley

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

Elizabeth Moon

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

Anna Quindlen

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

William Shakespeare

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

Nicholas D. Kristof

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

Al Goldstein

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

Angela Carter

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

Sargent Shriver

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Rita Mae Brown

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Henry James

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Clare Boothe Luce

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Edgar Watson Howe

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

Annie Leibovitz

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

Victoria Woodhull

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

Marilyn Hacker

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

Victoria Woodhull

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

Mary Astell

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.

Rose Schneiderman

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Edgar Watson Howe

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

Randy Neugebauer

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

Phyllis Schlafly

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Henry James

Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

Jenny Shipley

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

Tom DeLay

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

Andrea Dworkin

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

Yakov Smirnoff

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Maria Mitchell

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Ben Jonson